Flagstaff-holder



(No Model.)

J. & BfL. SIMPSON. FLAGSTAPP HOLDER.

No. 545,385. Patented Aug. 27, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT EErcEo JOSEPH SIMPSON AND BENJAMIN L. SIMPSON, OFCOLUMBUS, OHIO.

FLAGSTAFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 545,385, dated August27, 1895.

Application filed November 19, 1894. Serial No. 529,339. (No model.)

:To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOSEPH SIMPSON and BENJl-TMIN L. SIMPSON, citizensof the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklinand State ot' Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements inFlagstaff- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to lagstaftholders, and has for its particular object to provide a cheap, quickly attachable and detachable holder, ot'neat and durable construction, and especially adapted for the decorativedisplay of ilags from Windows or elsewhere upon the exterior ofbuildings or in halls and other apartments. An effective arrangement orgrouping of iags attached to staffs is usually attended with greatinconvenience,frequently requiring considerable time and labor, and it'nails are'used the statt will be often split and ruined, the means ofsupport will be unsightly `and insecure, and the parts of the buildingto which the flags are attached `.vill be defaced. Various forms ofi'lagstali-holders have been devised to obviate some of thesedifficulties, but they have been usually cumbersome and expensive, andoften require a number of nails or screws to hold them in place, so thatthey are not quickly detachable and call for some skill and labor to putthem properly in place.

It is one of the purposes of our invention to provide a .iiagstai-holderthat can be at once detached Without the drawing of a nail, screw, orother fastening, so that there need be but little, if any, marring ofthe part or support to which the holder is secured. The holders may beconstructed to receive and securely brace either a single dagstaft or anumber, and will permit the flags to be taken in quickly upon approachof astorm or threatening Weather, either by" withdrawing the staffs fromtheholders or by readily detaching the holders together with theinserted ilagstais.

To these ends our invention consists in a tiagstad-holder having thefeatures of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings, illustrating the invention, Figure l is aperspective of one form of our improved ilagstaE-holder, designed forreception of a single flagstad.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspectiveshowing a holder designed for receiving two flagstais. Figs. 4, 5, and 6are plans of the base portion of the holder, showing dilerently formedor arranged slots for the fastenings. Fig. 7 is an elevation of alagstafE-holder in which two radially-disposed main socket-arms areconnected at suitable points by oppositely-curved bars adapted to serveas bearings for an additional or intermediate flagstatf.

The tlagstai-holder is cheaply and conveniently made of east metal andcomprises a base portion l and an arm or socket 2, projecting from thesaid base at any required inclination and rigidly connected to andintegral with the base. The holder may have only one statt-receivingsocket-arm 2, as shown in Fig. l, or it may be provided with a pluralityof such arms, as shown in Fig. 3. While the socket arm or arms may havea generally tubular form, it is preferable, forsake of lightness andeconomy of material, to cast them in open-Work, as shown. Eachsocket-arrn is so constructed that an inserted tlagstaff will have awedging engagement with the socket when forced lirmly into place andWill be securely bracedtherein by the diagonally-op posed arrangement ofthe bearings 3, 4, and 5, with which each socketarm is provided. It theholder has a plurality of socket-arms 2,

Vthey are preferably given a radial arrangement and may closely convergeat their inner ends, Where they spring from the base of the holder, andthe inner ends of inserted iagstaffs may thus be made to have a wedgingaction on each other that will assist to hold them securely in place. Itwill be observed that the bearings 3 and t in the socket-arms have suchrelatively reverse curvatures and are diagonally opposed to theintermediate Vbearing 5 in such manner as will greatly assist a'tirinwedging action on aninserted flagstaff to hold itseonrelyin place. Wherethe dag-holder has a plurality of staff-receiving sockets, their innerends are so closely approached, as shown in Figs. 3 and l7, that theinner ends of inserted dagstaffs Will bear against each other and bethereby still further v secured.

In the base l of the flagstatt-holder is a slot, as 6, Figs. 1, 2, 3,1l, and 6, having an enlargement 7 at one end to facilitate engagementwith a large-headed nail, tack, or screwT inserted into a window-sill orother suitable support for the agstaff-holder; or, as shown in Fig. 5,an elongated open-ended slot S may be provided, the said slot beingthroughout of a width corresponding to the diameter of the shank portionof the nail, tack, or screw, and one end of the said slot 8 beingextended to the edge of the base l to permit its ready engagement withor removal from the fastening. The elongated and open-ended slot 8 isparticularly adapted to permit engagement vwith two nails, screws, orlike fastenings spaced a suitable distance apart, as may be necessarywhere several flags are supported in the holder and might tend to renderit top heavy. By means of a holder having the elongated and open-endedslot S in its hase a group of ags may be securely supported Without anyliability to topple over. The same purpose may be accomplished byproviding an open-ended slot 9, Figs. 3 and Lt, in the rear edge of thenase in which the slot 6 is formed. The slot 6 Will then engage with onefastening and. the slot E) with another, and these fasteniugs, beinglocated a suitable distance apart, will securely brace theVtlagstaff-holder even when a number of iiags are supported in it.

Any fastening having a large head lO-such as a suitable nail, tack, orscrew-may be ernployed as a means for attaching the flagst-affholder. Bymeans of the slot or slots provided in the base of the holder it can bequickly attached to or detached from the fastening with ease andconvenience. A building can thus be quickly and conveniently decoratedWithout involving much expense for the flagholders, and the iiags can bequickly taken down and preserved from injury in stormy weather and maybeas easily replaced. It Will be observed that the nail, screw, orfastening lO does not need to be drawn in order to detach theHagstaff-holder, and may consequently be left permanently in thewindowsili or other support.

In Fig. 7 We have shown a agstaff-holder of the same construction, asalready described, except that the two main radially-disposedsocket-arms 2 are connected at or near their upper ends by a bar l1,having a curvature that is preferably rearward, below which is a similarbar l2 having an opposite or forward curvature, and near the base of theradial socket-arms 2 is a connecting-Web 13, the said bars and web beingadapted to serve, by reasonvof their diagonally-opposite arrangement, asbearings for an additional fiagstaff inserted intermediate the mainradially-disposed socket-arms- Thus at but a triting additional cost forthe casting and but little increase of Weight the flagstaff-holder isreadily adapted to the support of three iiags.

We are aware that a iagstaff-holder has heretofore been provided with aseries of radially-disposed sockets formed in a plate or frame having apivotally-adjustable connection With an unslotted base portion adaptedto be clamped to a Window-sill or like support. lVe are also aware thatclothes-racks have been provided with adjustable arms inserted into anotched and grooved frame having keyhole-slots, through which the saidrack is tc be suspended from screws or nails driven into a wall, and Weare further aware that Whip-sockets for permanent attachment to thedashboards of vehicles have been constructed with diagonally-opposedbearings adapted to hold the handle portion of a whip with a Wedgingaction. These We do not claim, and our invention diers therefrom in thatit consists of a flagstaff-holder having a slotted base portion forquick and ready attachment to and' detachment from apermanent fasteningand having integral with said slotted base one or more socket-armsadapted to receive and securely brace one or more flagstaffs. y

`What we claim as our invention is- The herein described dag-staffholder composed of the base portion provided with a slot to detachablyengage a permanent fastening and one or more socket arms integral Withsaid base, projecting therefrom at an angle, and each constructed toreceive and securely brace a flagstaff, substantially as shown anddescribed.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set our hands in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH SIMPSON.

BENJAMIN L. SIMPSON. Titnessesz E. C. BEACH, Isaac D. Ross.

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